Tue Oct 13
A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this style. How the writer shows up in the prose, its four principles, the role of story, how to sensibly...
The hands have been pulled out of all the clocks in the world.—Tristan TzaraGrains et IssuesThe clocks wait, naked. Hands left late last night.Now vacant time can’t name later or now.Your floor is too orderly—black squares, whiteoblongs stare back with evil smiles to spiteloose clocks. You’re naked and your...
13 Flimsy | INDEX | 15 Hooray Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.
Apple is selling the recently announced HomeView, an iPad mini glued to a speaker that serves as a hub for the home, with a chaotic commercial in which a family runs over for breakfast. I can’t remember any other company commercial that causes anxiety and contempt for the product.
El título es el resumen de lo que es el nuevo producto de Apple que se lanzó en el día de hoy. Es una pantalla de 7″ pulgadas que recuerda (con algo de imaginación a una miniatura de la vieja iMac G4 lanzada en el 2002. Claro, también se puede adquirir sin la base de altavoz, extrañamente sale exactamente el mismo...
On Friday October 9th, German journalist Gavin Karlmeier released the latest episode of his podcast “Haken dran” and shared an exclusive scoop: an anonymous source discovered that the social media company W Social is publishing to the world wide web the legal names, nationalities and approximate dates of birth of...
I bought a lamp from the UK, and it came with this plug… … which turns out to be a normal EU plug inside an adapter. Which is nice, but I’ve never seen this solution before. This adapter looks sturdy, but still so… janky. Is this normal?
Quick one today. A lovely reader sent me a bug report with this pic: They told me they saw this in NetNewsWire (NNW) so I dug into the issue queue and found this thread. I don’t remember how I came to have <title type="html"> in my template, but I do remember that the XML style wrapping of <![CDATA[title text]]>...
“Hey du. Ich brauch da so einen Zettel, du weißt schon, so einen, der bestätigt, dass du du bist und ich ich bin und ich dann so Dinge tun kann, als sei ich du.” “Du … meinst eine Vollmacht?” ‘Ja, genau die!” 🫠 Per E-Mail antworten
I mainly listen to albums, or LPs as they used to be called. Not playlists. I love albums! Loads of amazing albums get released each year, so why does Spotify make it so hard to discover them? To find new albums in Spotify I have to go to Seach > Music > New Releases, scroll down to "Hand-picked new releases" and...
I spent a week creating a new deflate implementation from scratch in C named tugz to provide an Info-ZIP-compatible zip program for w64devkit 2.10.1 (released today). I also replaced busybox-w32’s deflate-based unzip, gzip, gunzip, and zcat apps as well. My new deflate performs better than zlib but worse than...
Consider a story like Ghibli's Spirited Away. Chihiro is thrown into a supernatural world dominated by cruelty and injustice, but she doesn't defeat it by hoarding magical power-ups until she's strong enough to punch Yubaba in the face. She wins because she's brave and clever and empathic enough to make friends and...
After the masterpiece that is Outer Wilds, I wanted to chill for a moment, and what a better way to do so than by going through a detective story! Famicom Detective Club is a pretty niche series by Nintendo, with only a couple games that were only on the NES—though recently remade for Nintendo Switch. Emio The...
Nach der Vernissage ist vor dem Umzug in den öffentlichen Raum bei KalkKunst! Ich habe meine Bilder heute im Kalker Buchladen aufgehängt und dabei einen schönen Plausch mit dem freundlichen und interessierten Menschen vor Ort gehabt. Ich liebe diesen Anblick: Meine Sachen inmitten von Büchern. Besser geht es nicht....
Tor and Onion addresses are one of those things that I feel like I have known about since forever. Still, I never really understood how the Tor Project worked, both organisationally and technically. It is thanks to Avoiding the Internet Achilles’ heel: locking the web open with Onion Services at the Internet Archive...
Talvez esse seja o single mais triste do grupo, até o momento. Não por causa das músicas serem depressivas, muito pelo contrário! Elas vão te levar pro extremo da balada eletrônica, mas não sem no meio do caminho fazer com que você fique extremamente triste. Com duas membros que são a cara do grupo desde o início,...
New links… “Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales “A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel “Many couples do not...
Tarmac vs. treadmillIt's getting colder here. That makes running outside slightly less appealing. Nuwani and I had been talking about joining a gym for the winter so we could keep up our weekly running habit, and today, we did. We didn't want to sink a lot of money into this. Really, all we needed was access to a...
The vibePretty worn out, honestly. I have wanted to keep things moving, but I have been tired enough that it is hard to ignore. Getting away from the desk for a while helped.Highlights🤝 I found Buildside at the start of the month, and I have spent more time there as I get used to being a solo builder. I am still...
Estos últimos días he estado trabajando mucho en el Hitz, y uno de los temas que más me interesa resolver es cómo hacer que la plataforma sea sostenible y rentable. Sé que somos un proyecto de nicho. Lo más probable es que no alcancemos un crecimiento masivo y nuestra filosofía parte de apoyar genuinamente a la...
A couple of days ago, thanks to some free time on a Sunday afternoon, I got round to setting up my newly acquired Steam Machine. While I don't have a lot to say about it, I thought I'd note here that the event happened and jot some notes about how it went. On unboxing, two things struck me: just how small it is,...
Robert Birming wrote about a /photo page. And I like that idea. Just a photo, of something. And every now and then, update it.
A Few Minutes, Week After Week mtift Tue, 10/13/2026 - 05:15 For many years, I’ve led meditation groups in various settings. People come for a while, then stop coming.For instance, earlier this year, a colleague and I started a daily meditation group called the “Daily Reset.” I personally found it to be a nice break...
There is a certain residence in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, right on the border with Carroll Gardens, which regularly displays large inflatable holiday and seasonal decorations. As far as holidays go, we have covered in these pages its offerings for Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Independence Day, Easter and St....
Last month I raced what has now become traditionally my last race of the season: Ironman 70.3 Washington Tri-Cities, in Richland, Washington. My primary goal for this race was simple: finish my season strong. If I could finish this race faster than last year, that’d be a nice bonus, but I simply wanted to put a bow...
“Creative people live in two worlds. One is the ordinary world which they share with others and in which they are not in any special way set apart from their fellow men. The other is private and it is in this world that the creative acts take place.” The great Polish-American mathematician Mark Kac (August 3,...
October 2026. Off to west Folkestone (or possibly Hythe) for a penultimate Kent GBG27 tick, and a little stretch of coast I knew nothing about. We start our descent to the Fountain at the serene military cemetery next to Shorncliffe Army Camp. This is a busy bit of OS map. Place names to conjure with; Shorncliffe,...
Since its acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, Twitter/X has been considered a neighbourhood on the wrong side of the tracks. But not any more. Things have changed. Now it’s the place to be. Because, among other things, the platform is “cheerful” and “inclusive”. So say some people. But the question is vexed, the...
Apple introduced a few new things this morning centered around home use. Updated products are mostly predictable updates with slight price hikes after the existing ones over the summer. The star of the show is the new $299 HomeView, the long-rumored stationary home gadget: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView,...
High profile bloggers return to X. A new CEO, a different algorithm, and a whining “but it’s where the action is?”. So it’s ok to be in the platform run by a sociopathic Nazi as long as you aren’t SEEING the right wing hatred? Have I got that right? And hey all the interesting stuff is there anyway, so what’s the...
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I need to publish 26 more blog posts before November 11th to reach my goal of 100 posts in one year. This is my second time doing the 100 Days To Offload challenge. I've had some long dry spells in writing over the past year, but it the challenge has definitely helped motivate me to write more than I probably would...